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Recent Examples of side effect
Most Memed: Wicked A side effect of having one of the most relentless marketing campaigns of all time is that Wicked has had almost a whole year of being in the public eye.
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2024
Users reported grotesque necrotic wounds that eat away at their skin and even the underlying flesh – a side effect of the veterinary drug.
—Maurice Tamman, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
This social isolation and loss of support – even from close friends and family members – is a devastating and often unrecognized side effect of the disease.
—Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
This limits the duration and number of injections by nearly 80 percent—and helps mitigate their side effects.
—Alexandra York, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2024
Users reported grotesque necrotic wounds that eat away at their skin and even the underlying flesh – a side effect of the veterinary drug.
—Maurice Tamman, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
This social isolation and loss of support – even from close friends and family members – is a devastating and often unrecognized side effect of the disease.
—Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
This limits the duration and number of injections by nearly 80 percent—and helps mitigate their side effects.
—Alexandra York, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for side effect
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The on-field ramifications for Colorado were important.Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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Alex Bregman might be an obvious choice to many, but the financial and qualifying offer ramifications go well beyond a $200 million contract.Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr., Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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Along with being a bracingly honest reckoning with trauma and its aftereffects, Evergreen is also musically right-up-front.Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
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Children were abused and the aftereffects of that abuse continue to ripple years after these crimes were committed.Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 11 Oct. 2024
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One of those areas of legal operations in determining whether or not cases are worth pursuing based on time, complexity, and expense.Ron Schmelzer, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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In northern California and southern Oregon, a winter weather advisory for Mount Shasta and Crater Lake adds another layer of complexity to the region's extreme weather.Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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Instead of excessive fastidiousness and convolution, the mood is one of generosity, ease, and serenity.Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 5 Dec. 2024
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Especially for certain special education students, many of whom have a neurological condition, having an accurate summary of a topic indeed may be better and more digestible than having to comb through pages upon pages of detailed convolution that may very plausibly overwhelm someone.Steven Aquino, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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Bradley Imer died from complications of COVID-19 in July 2021.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
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As such, parents of the past, who may have been able to be very present, focused and involved in their child’s travel experience are now distracted because of the compression of the experience, and the complications of modern travel.Jason D. Seacat, Hartford Courant, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Side effect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/side%20effect. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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